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ORIGINATOR: FBI
FROM: NY
TO: HQ
TITLE:
DATE: 06/28/1965
‘PAGES : 21
SUBJECTS :
RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON
DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
CLASSIFICATION : — Top Secret
RESTRICTIONS: —_ Not Assassination Related
CURRENT STATUS: — Withhold
DATE OF LAST REVIEW: — 12/09/1998 .
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Reurlet 10-29-65. \_\,

Prior to instituting action concerning subject's
removal from Security Index, Bureau desires a report or
memorandum be prepared for dissemination purposes to include
any unreported subversive activities on subject's part.
Submit promptly and you will be advised further concerning
subject's Security Index status. iA 7

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NOTE: - ;
Subject was head of Fair Play for Cuba Committee

at one time and is now living in London where he is connected
with some communist publications. In 1962 subject offered to :-
serve as informant for Bureau solely for financial reasons but
we deciined fan
CIA advised It is now directing Gibson's activitieSa Prior t
removing him from Index, it is felt a current report or
memorandum. should be submitted to interested agencies. :

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
MAY 1962 EDITION

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y TO a p> . DIRECTOR, ‘FBI (105- 93072) DATE: 10/29/65
: Ka | ALL INFORMATION CONTAINE!
“mS Koes NEW YORK (105- 42387 ) HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED EXCEFL
- WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE
SUBJECT: RICHARD THOMAS. &f2s0n SECRET
IS = CUBA 7

ReBulet, 10/22/65. A -

RICHARD THOMAS. GIBSON is a. SI subject of the
NYO. ReBulet. indicates that CIA has advised in confidence
that ON and. has assigned the code
name

Of, 's previous activities would
r warrant retention on the SI, it is felt that inasmuch
get) as GIBSON has been debriefed by CIA and is presently
fo being operated by CIA, GIBSON no longer warrants inclusion
on the SI, and accordingly it is being recommended that
the name of RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON be deleted from the i
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Director, FBI (105~-93072) PERSONAL ATTENTION
aan ALL INFORMATION CONTAINCR
4 Ss GIBS TOP SECRET HEREIN 1S . (SY EXCEPT
4 { is CoA GIBSON WHERE SHOWS OTHERWIGEL °. ¥
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Ia) According to Bureau Source 6, on 9-21-65
Richard Gibson in London contacted Robert Williams in
Cuba and indicated he had received an unidentified message
i from Williams. Gibson assured Williams of his personal
gg. loyalty and solidarity in "the. struggle." Gibson alse said

Was ready to tiake any effort which would help

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he was partially responsible for Willians'* ots) and
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(CIA) has advised in confidence that it is operating

Gibson and the message, would indicate that CIA is attempting ;
‘7 o have Gibson rewestablish contact with Williams. Note i
ul that CIA has assigned the code name. SUGAR to Gibson and q ata. -

originating with him will be attributed to that code nama Ky

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sjavoid a kidnapping trial and is now 2 Bureau fugitive. Gibson
°jwas formerly head of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee but has ~
claimed.to be repentant. We were in touch with him in 1962
at which time he offered to serve as informant purely for
_ financial yeasons without showing any allegiance whatsoever _
to the U-S€iWe advised CIA of, his offer to,,cooperate and in
|Polson did make contact with Gibson in London where he

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ae copies of a LHM dated and captioned as above. It
w=. is requested that one of the copies be furnished by.

-+/ the Bureau to Legat, London as requested in re
Lees Legat, London letter. \)

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oo, NY T-l referred to in the memorandum
On cra bs contained in relet, 4/26/65.

NY T-3 in 3164-8 fino is used to characteriz
RICHARD GIBSON. : ? oO
Mrs. JAY SAPIENZA, Superintendent at 45 Carmine’
x Street, NY, NY, was contacted by SA JOHN EDWARD HEGARTY
Wes on 6/3/6 5.

The records of BSS agd BCI, NYCPD, WET Eronpe toned cars
reviewed by SA AUGUST J.. MICRRYon 5/31/65. Data! Oeciassit Azer

Y Credit Bureau of Greater
M. O'BRIEN on 5/19/65.

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By letter dated 4/30/65, Legat, Mexico, advised that
the Mexico City Station of CIA, by memorandum

2/18/65, captioned "American Communists! Contacts in

Mexico City" which was classified "Secret" with instructions |
that the information not be disseminated outside the

Bureau, furnished information indicating that a leading
member of the National Liberation Movement, a pro-Cuba,
anti-US Communist front, stated that LEO ERMAN 2nd)
FRANCES KELLY, both of whom are editors of Wy t
"Monthly Review" were in.Mexico. According ‘to eae
memorandum, HUBERMAN and KELLY were interested in discussing
the possibility of publishing English translations of the
writings of DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS, a well known Mexican
artist and a member of the Central Committee of the Mexican
CP, Thé mémorandum also indicated that KELLY arrived ;
in Mexico on 2/14/65, and both she md HUBERMAN were os
in contact with American Communists in Mexico, S

The ‘enclosed LHM is being classified "Secret"
as it contains information furnished by CIA which was ,
classified "Seoret" (s

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TED STATES DEPARTMENT O\_ JUSTICE eet

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to -
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cae dune
Bureau; : 1059 30s
New York 105-42387.- SECRET ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED
‘ RCLASSIFIED EXCEE
WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE.

Richard Thomas Gibson
” Internal Security - Cuba

On April 20, 1965, NY T-1, another Government
agency which conducts intelligence investi ations, furnished
anformation indicating, that on April 2, 1965, an employee
of the Cuban Embassy, London, England, had furnished ~~ ¥
Richard Gibson the telephone number “of a girl who was

going to stay in the United Kingdom and who wanted to

see Gibson. NY T-1 noted that the.girl_is evidently _
Kelley, of the "Monthly Review" of New York.

NY T-1 advised that Kelley had a letter of introduction

to the above-mentioned employee of the Cuban Embassy,
London, England, fro. Leo Huberman with whom she had

GM/ worked in New vxi(G) Joesel, Saeunity He b43-Sl- AIF.

Ly A characterization of "Monthly
ie - Review" is contained in the appendix _ |
hereto. , - :
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On March 1, 1965, NY T-2, who has furnished
reliable information in the past, furnished information
4ndicating that Frances Kelly, who is originally fron

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_ Oeclassify on: OADR

This document contains neither recommendations
nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property
"of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it
and its contents are not to be distributed

outside your agency.

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of "Monthly Review" .\\

- SECRET:

| Righard Thomas Gibson

_. England and who recently returned to England, was employed ~
‘by the publication "Monthly Review" in.New York for. several
-years.® NY T+2 advised that while residing in. New York, .
.she resided at 45 Carminé Street, Apartment 25; New York,
“New York. NY T-2 advised that Frances Kelly is the sister
_of -PatiKelly, 29 Gunter Grove, London, Southwest 10,

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England. -NY T-2 advised thather~soclarsecurity number

oS NY Te2 further davised that in’ June, 1964,.0

*“Brances: Kelly directed corresponderice on. behalf of

"Monthly Review" to the Ghana Mission to’the United

-. Nations indicating. that she had.done some-research. —
». work regarding a cumulative index for the party book

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.- shop in Accra, which had been requested by the Ghana
Mission to the United Nations. Y(() _

: The March, 1964 issue of "Monthly Review" on
page 623, contains a book review by Frances Kelly in

which she is identified as an assistant to the editors

On June 3,.1965, Mrs. Jay Sapienza, Superintendent,

- 45 Carmine Street, New York, New York, advised that Frances

Kelly resided at 45 Carmine Street, for approximately

two years until January, 1965, at which time she indicated
that she was going to make a.trip-to Mexico and then return
to England. Mrs. Sapienza stated that she believed that
Frances Kelly originally came to the United States from
England as she had-an English accent. .Mrs. Sapienza

stated that KelZy is in her early 30's and was a journalist
who worked for « magazine-in New York, New York. Mrs.
Sapienza stated that during her residence at 45 Carmine
Street, Frances Kelly was an excellent tenant. \

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Richard Thomas Gibson

.The records of the Bureau of Special Services

‘and the Bureau of Criminal Identification, New York
City Police Department, were searched on May 31, 1965, a
and no record identifiable with Frances Kelly could be oe
» located. . a.

The files of the Credit Bureau of Greater New --
York were reviewed on May 19, 1965, and no record identi-
fiable with Frances Kelly could be located.

Concerning Richard Thomas Gibson, NY T-3, who
has furnished reliable information in the past, has
advised that Gibson was the former Acting Executive
Secretary of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. In n
September, 1962, Gibson left the United States and
went to Algeria where he remained until April, 1963.

.The March 19, 1963 issue of "Monthly Review" identifies
Gibson as the English Language Editor of "Revolution
Africaine", a new weekly created by the Political Bursa a
of the Algerian Government. \ h

A characterization of the. Fair Play
for Cuba Committee is contained in
the appendix hereto.

SECRET

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SECRET

APPENDIX

- FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE

The April 6, 1960,. edition of’ "The New York:
Times" newspaper contained a full-page advertisement
captioned "What Is Really Happening In Cuba," placed by

the Fair Play. for Cuba Committee (FPCC). This advertise

ment announced the formation of the FFPCC in New York: City

and declared the FPCC intended to promulgate "the truth
“about revolutionary. Cuba" vo neutralize ‘the. distorted

Americ san ‘press. A

“the New York mimes" edition of January 11,

1961," ‘reported, that at a hearing” conducted before the

' United States. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on

January 10, 1961, Dr. CHARLES A. SANTOS-BUCH identified

himself and ROBERT TABER as: organizers of the FPCC, He.
“also testified he. and TABER obtained ‘funds from the Cuban
Government which were. arpiied toward the cost of the afore-.

- mentioned advertis ements

" organizations in the FPCC that. ‘their influence as of
May, 1 1963, Was negligible. KY

On fay 16, 19636 a source advised that during

_the. first. two years of the FFCC's existence there was a

struggle between Communist Party (CP) and Socialist Workers

--Party (SWP) elements to exert their power within the FPCC

and thereby influence FPCC policy. This. source. added that

during the past year there had been a successful effort by

FPCC leadership to.minimize the role of these and other

the SWP has been designated pursuant to
Executive Order 10450.

ba May 20, 1963, a second source advised ‘that

" VINCENT mel LEE, FPCC National Office Director, was then

formulating FPCC policy and had indicated that he had no
intention of permitting FPCC policy to. be determined by
any other organization, This source stated that LEE
believed that the’ FPCC should advocate resumption of.
diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States

‘and should. support the right of Cubans to manage their

revolution without interference from other nations. LEE
aid nos advocate supporting | the Cuban revolution per se. \

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APPENDTX

2.

FA TR PEAY _ OR CUBA OBA COMMITTEE
y : The November 23, 1963, edition of "The New York
Times" reported that Senator THOMAS J. DODD of Connecticut
had called FPCC "the chief public relations instrument of
the CASTRO neswork in the United States." It is to be noted. - we
that Senater DODD was a member of the Senate inteznal Security =
Subcommittee which twice conducted hearings on the FFCC, we nn ae

a. The Lecember 27, 1963, edition of "rehe New Vork

ao” World Telesram and Sun" newspaper stated thet the pro-
CASTRO FCG was seeking to go out of businese and that —
its prime activity during its jifetime had heen sponsor-
ship of pro-CASTRO street ralliez and mass picket lines, : a
and the direction of an active prepéegands mili, highlighting. .- :.
illegal travel-to-Cuba campaigns. Its comparatively brief — an
span of life was attributed to mounting anti-CASTRO American by
public cpinion, the 1962 Congressional hearings which dis- 7 ,
closed FPCC flnancing by CASTRO'’s United Nations Delegation, »
and ultimately, the bad publicity which tre FECC neces ved
from discicsure of activities on its behalf. ty suspecte
presidential ass assin, ‘LEE H, OSWALD. : =

on Pebruary 6, 1964, the previously mentioned

\ second source advised that V. T. LEE had recently remarked
that the PPCC was dead and that there were no plans to |

erganize another: ‘similar organization, .

Cn April 13, 1964, a third source- advised that: -
there had not been any FECC activity in many months and
that “the FPCO" had” been. tance ON ‘

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’ SWEEZY was used to advantage in many cP front activities |

SECKEL,

A source advised on March 24, 1953, that Monthly :

MONTHLY REVIEW

Review, Inc., was incorporated in the State of New York a
on October 19, 1951, and the corporation papers reflected :

it succeeded the individual business of LEO HUBERMAN at
66 Barrow Street, New York, New York, which operated
since 19k3 under the title, Monthly Review Press.

The publication is "An Independent Socialist
Magazine" with editorial and business offices at 333 Sixt
Avenue, New York 14; New York, and mailing address at zee
Barrow Street, New York, New York , according to the March,
1961, issue of "Monthly Review. Its editors are listed
as LEO HUBERMAN and PAUL M. SWEEZY. .

_ LOUIS F. BUDENZ, former editor of ne’ "petty
Worker,” an East Coast Communist newspaper which: suspended

publication on January 13, 1958, advised on June 23, 1950, ft /
that LEO HUPERMAN was a member of the CP in 1945. QA ‘|

Anotrer source advised on November 2, 1954, that - Z
PAUL M, SWEEZY was known as a Marxist, but not: as a Communist ey
Party (cP) member. ‘The same source stated that the CP hard’ ~
core had been critical of SWEEZY because of his. independent’ /
application of Marxist theory. According to the source, |- ; os

in the 1930's

The. CP has been designated by the Attorney
General of the United States pursuant, to:

Executive Order 10450, NN 4

SECRET

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k_..TED STATES DEPARTMENT O._ sUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

ML aSytieD EXCEPT

File No.
. New York, New. York
a June Bg, 1685 -
Bureau / 2105-93072 ALL IWEGREATION CONTAINED =
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New York 105-42387 (SECRET

Richard Thomas Gibson
Internal Security - Cuba

on April 20, 1965, NY T-1, another Government ; -

agency which conducts intelligence investigations, furnished

information indicating that on April 2, 1965, an employee
of the Cuban Embassy, London, England, had furnished
Richard Gibson the telephone number of a girl who was
going to stay in the United Kingdom and who wanted to. °
see Gibson. NY T-1 noted that the girl is evidently
Frances Kelley of the "Monthly Review" of New York. .
NY. “gdvised that Kelley had a letter of introduction
to, the above-mentioned employee of the Cuban Embassy ,

sndon, England, from Leo Huberman with whom she had
worked in New York (@

A charactérization of "Monthly

Review" ig contained in the appendix
hereto, * ;

On March 1, 1965, NY T#2, who has furnished

reliablé information in the past, furnished information
indicating that Frances Kelly, who is originally from

st
“laSsifie by

Declassify. ont QADR TER) oe .
Thi¢ document contains. neither recommendations

nor conclusions of the FBI,” “It is the property
of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it

and its contents are not to be distributed
outside your agency.

Stee

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Richard.

England and:who recently returned to England, was"employed
by the publication "Monthly Review" in New York for:several
years, NY T-2 advised that while residing in New York, ©
she resided at 45 Carmine Street, Apartment 25,-New York,
New York. NY T~2 advised that Frances Kelly is the sister
of Pat Kelly, 19 Gunter Grove, London, Southwest 10,
England. --NY' T-2 advised that her Social Security number
is 043=51-2909. LON ;

NY T-2 further advised that in June, 1964,
Frances Kelly directed correspondence on behalf of
"Monthly Review" to the Ghana Mission to the United
Nations indicating that. she had done some research
work regarding a cumulative index for the party book
shop in Accra, which had been requested by the Ghana
Mission to the United mastons. lu)

The March, 1964 issué of "Monthly Review" on
page 623, contains a book review by Frances Kelly in
which she is identified as an assistant to the editors
of "Monthly Review".

On June 3; 1965, Mrs, Jay Sapienza, Superintendent,
45 Carmine Street, New York, New York, advised that Frances
Kelly resided at 45 Carmine Street, for approximately
two years until January, 1965, at which time she indicated
that she was going to make a trip to Mexico and then return
to England. Mrs. Sapienza stated that she believed that
Frances Kelly originally came to the United States from
England as she had an English accent. Mrs. Sapienza
tated that Keliy is in her early 30's and was a journalist
ho worked for « magazine in.New: York, New York. Mrs.
. Sapienza stated that during esidence at 45 Carmine
Street, Frances Melly was an excellent. tenant. NO

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Richard Thomas Gibson

The records of the Bureau of Special Services
and the Bureau of Criminal Identification, New York
City Police Department, were searched on May 31, 1965,
and no record identifiable with Frances Kelly could be
Located. ae »

The files of the Credit Bureau of Greater New --
York were reviewed on May 19, 1965, and no record identi-«-
fiable with Frances Kelly could be located.

Concerning Richard Thomas Gibson, NY T-3, who
has furnished reliable information in the past, has
advised that Gibson was the former Acting Executive
Secretary of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. In
September, 1962, Gibson left the United States and
went to Algeria where he remained until April, 1963.
.The March 19, 1963 issue of "Monthly Review" identifies
Gibson as the English Language Editor of "Revolution
Africaine", a new weekly created by the Political Bursau
of the Algerian Government,

A characterization of the Fair Play
for Cuba Committee is contained in
the appendix hereto.

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__.._kichard Thomas Gibson

1 APPENDIX
_ PAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITEE =

The April 6, 1960, edition of "The New York
Times" newspaper contained a full-page advertisement —
captioned "What Is Really Happening In Cuba," placed by
the Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC). This advertise-
ment announced the formation of the FPCC in New York City
and declared’ the FPCC intended to promulgate "the truth
about révolutionary Cuba" to neutralize the distorted
American ‘press. .
“The New York Times" edition of January 11,
1961, reported that at a hearing conducted before the
United States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on
_ January 10, 1961, Dr, CHARLES A, SANTOS-BUCH identified
himself and ROBERT TABER as organizers of the FPCC, He.
also testified he and TABER obtained funds from the Cuban
Government which were applied toward the cost of the afore-.
mentioned advertisemen~. a

On May 16, 1963, a source advised that during
the. first two years of the FPCC‘s existence there was a

struggle between Communist Party (CP} and Socialist Workers ¥*

‘Party (SWP} elements to exert their power within the FPCC
and ‘thereby influence FPCC policy, This source added that

- during the past year there had been a successful effort by -

FPCC leadership to.minimize the role of these and other .
organizations in the FPCC so that their influence as of
May, 1963, was negligible. ,

The SWP has been designated pursuant to
Executive Order 10450,

On May 20, -1963, a second source advised that
VINCENT "TED" LEE, FPCC: National Office Director, was then
formulating FPCC policy and had indicated that he had no
intention ‘of permitting FPCC policy to be determined by
any other organization. This source stated that LEE
believed that the FPCC should advocate resumption of
diplomatid relations betwere Cuba and the United States
and should support the right of Cubans to manage their
revolution without interference from other nations. LEE
did nct advocate supporting the Cuban revolution per se.

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The Novemher 23, 1963, edition of "The New York
Times" reported that Senator THOMAS J. DODD of Connecticut
had called FPCC "the chief public relations ineatrument of .
the CASTRO network in the United States." Tb is to be noted =| -
that Senator DODD was a member of the Senate internal Security |
' Subcommittee which twice conducted hearings on the FFOC.

. .' ‘The LDecember ce 1963, edition of "The New Vork

World Telegram and Sun" newspaper stated that the pro-
CASTRO FPCC was seeking to go out of business and that |
its prime activity during its lifetime had been pponsor~
ship of pro-CASTRO street rallies and iwass picket lines,
and the direction of an active prepaganda mili highlighting.
iliegal travel-to-Cuba campaigns. Its comparatively brief |
span of life was attributed to mounting anti-CASTRO American
public epinion, the 1962 Congressional hearings which dis~-
closed FPCC financing by CAS'PRO's United | Nations Delegation,
and ultimately, the bad publicity which tne FPCC received
from disclesure of eotiveuies on its behalf by suspected
presidential assassin, mH, OSWALD,

on February 6, 1964, the previously mentioned
second source advised that Vv. T, LEE had recently remarked
that the PPCC was dead and that there were no pians to
organize ‘another’ similar orga anigation.

on April 13, 1964, a third source- advised that--
there had not been any FPCC activity in many months and
that the FPCC had” been. dissolved,

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Richard Thomas Gibson SECRET
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MONTHLY REVIEW

A source advised on March eu, 1953, that Monthly
Review, Inc., was incorporated in the State of New York
on October 19, 1951, and the corporation papers reflected
it succeeded the individuel business of LEO HUBERMAN at
66 Barrow Street, New York, New York, which operated
since 1949 under the title, Monthly Review Press.

' The ‘publication is "An Independent -Socialist
Magazine" with editorial and business offices at 333 Sixt
Avenue, New York 14, New York, and mailing address at 66
Barrow Street, New York, New York, according to the March,
1951, ,issue of “Monthly Review." Its editors are listed
as LEO HUBERMAN. and PAUL M, SWEEZY.

LOUIS F, BUDENZ, former editor of the "Daily
Worker,” an East Coast Communist newspaper which suspended
publication on January 13, 1958, advised_on June 23, 1950,
_that LEO HUPERMAN was a member of the CP in 1945,

inothe r source advised on November 2, 1954, that
PAUL M, SWEEZY was known as a Marxist, but not as a Communist
Party (CP) member. The same source stated that the CP hard
core had been critical of SWEEZY because of his independent
application of Marxist theory. According to the source,
SWEEZY was used to advantage in many CP front activities
in the 1930's. . ;

The CP has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United States pursuant to
Executive Order 10450.

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Attentions Deputy Director, Plans
"John Rdgar Hoover, Director
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Seventeen Anorican Negroes

'_ Training in Nanking, Chinn >"
IUTERNAL SECURITY » CAIHA a ne

. training there ‘Ss

"bo may be able to furnish inthis regard
@~ 105-93072 (Richard ‘Thonas Gibson). ‘

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. fee requested that "Sugar" be contactes &

. LMAiamfiler (7) entities

Anerica, if, in fact, they are Amcricans,

“4s presently on the Security”
'. contact with. him in Europe and plans

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| trained 4n guerrilla warfare at tho Nanking Military School |
in China in 1903, there wore soventeen American ne, roes also
. training at this school. The source further stated that this

/ Was not the firgt group of American negroes to receive such _

ey _ Ho additZonal information has been developed corrobos’
/ Wating the above allegation. However, a review of our files
. dgd@ieates that a source of your Agency, who utilizes tho a
| eryptoaym “Sugar,” evidently kas a wide aequaintanceship in
Afvican nationalist movements and therefore may be da a position |

to <urnish information concerning this matter, it 4g there .

date has failed to develop any additional corroborat -
-weferred to above is Richard Thomas Gibson, formerly involved with ||
the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and welleknown to the Bureau,

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